Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia

By: Boustan Ra'anan S

Scholars of early Jewish mysticism have, with increasing confidence, located the initial formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and Sasanian or early Islamic Babylonia (ca. 500-900 C.E.). Yet questions remain regarding the specific cultural contexts and institutional settings out of which the various strands of Hekha

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161525752
• ISBN13: 9783161525759
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 420 Pages